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USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Sept 30, 2025
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Partial year: Data through Q3 2025 (Sept 30). Full-year totals not yet available.

Top Inventors 2025

Ranked by patent count

Showing 1–50 of 469,880 inventors

Rank Name Patents Location Company
1 Tao Luo 609 San Diego, CA Qualcomm
2 Junyi Li 368 Fairless Hills, PA Qualcomm
3 Dawei Zhang 335 Saratoga, CA Apple
#4 Xiaoxia Zhang 313 San Diego, CA Qualcomm
#5 Shan Liu 302 San Jose, CA Tencent America
#6 Esmael Hejazi Dinan 255 McLean, VA Ofinno
#7 Jing Sun 251 San Diego, CA Qualcomm
#8 Yushu Zhang 247 Beijing, CA Apple
#9 Wei Zeng 245 San Diego, CA Apple
#10 Haitong Sun 239 Cupertino, CA Apple
#11 Hong He 232 Cupertino, CA Apple
#12 Peter Gaal 219 San Diego, CA Qualcomm
#13 Chunxuan Ye 209 San Diego, CA Apple
#14 Wanshi Chen 191 San Diego, CA Qualcomm
#15 Yan Zhou 189 San Diego, CA Qualcomm
#16 Oghenekome Oteri 187 San Diego, CA Apple
#17 Kai Zhang 173 San Diego, CA Bytedance
#18 Weidong Yang 171 San Diego, CA Apple
#19 Jonathan P. Ive 167 San Francisco, CA Apple
#20 Duncan Robert Kerr 167 San Francisco, CA Apple
#21 Richard P. Howarth 164 Lake Forest, IL Apple
#22 Frederick E. Shelton, IV 162 Cincinnati, OH Johnson & Johnson
#23 Bartley K. Andre 159 Los Gatos, CA Apple
#24 Xin Zhao 158 Santa Clara, CA Tencent America
#25 M. Evans Hankey 157 San Francisco, CA Apple
#26 Shunpei Yamazaki 156 Tokyo, MO Semiconductor Energy Laboratory
#27 Peter Russell-Clarke 156 San Francisco, CA Apple
#28 Hua Zhou 154 Herndon, VA Ofinno
#29 Seunghwan KIM 152 Seoul, CA LG
#30 Armando Montalvo 152 Winter Garden, FL Digital Global Systems
#31 Li Zhang 151 San Diego, CA Bytedance
#32 Benjamin Andrew Shaffer 146 San Jose, CA Apple
#33 Shota Aoyagi 143 San Francisco, CA Apple
#34 Chunhai Yao 142 Beijing, CA Apple
#35 Jie Cui 141 San Jose, CA Apple
#36 Chih-Hao Wang 138 Dashulong, MA TSMC
#37 Mostafa KHOSHNEVISAN 136 San Diego, CA Qualcomm
#38 Sony Akkarakaran 132 Poway, CA —
#39 Jeremy Bataillou 132 San Francisco, CA Apple
#40 Hyoungsuk Jeon 132 Centreville, VA Ofinno
#41 Molly Anderson 131 San Francisco, CA Apple
#42 Eugene Antony Whang 131 San Francisco, CA Apple
#43 Kyungmin Park 130 Vienna, VA Ofinno
#44 Julian Jaede 130 San Francisco, CA Apple
#45 Huilin XU 130 Temecula, CA Qualcomm
#46 Wooseok Nam 128 San Diego, CA Qualcomm
#47 Muhammad Sayed Khairy ABDELGHAFFAR 128 San Jose, CA Qualcomm
#48 Clement Tissandier 128 San Francisco, CA Apple
#49 Huaning Niu 127 San Jose, CA Apple
#50 Yang Tang 125 Santa Clara, CA Apple